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css_apologist··on What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x
these things you are talking about are only true due to the unbelievably LARGE marketing ~propaganda~ spending

what you're saying reflects corporation tendencies

take away the propaganda, let people live, see how they react

css_apologist··on The Amazon tax
> The same logic applies to other platforms - like subway platforms or television or even restaurant menus.

this is really bad comparison

a subway platform ad doesn't dictate the way consumers use the subway.

a restaurant does not monitor the effectiveness of the ads in their menus, analyse their industry and rip off their product with an in-house brand (amazon basics)

amazon is not a marketplace, it is a surveillance platform built to allow amazon to take ownership of more and more markets

to say this is just a problem with ads is defeatist instead getting real tangible change

css_apologist··on You don't need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript
honestly if you go vanilla just go vanilla, don't imitate the vdom but worse

use query selectors and manually do fine grained updates

i don't think it works for everything, but a few years back i started doing it for side projects and never really missed any of the frameworks

css_apologist··on The front end framework for correctness: built on Effect, architected like Elm
its a trade off for sure

but my experience working with elm is that things just work almost always the first time

if they can bring that over, many will take that trade off

yes somethings are harder to express, but its subjective if its a bad thing given the correctness guarantees

i haven't firmly run into the perf ceiling myself, but yes it is obviously there for more interactive apps

css_apologist··on Saying Goodbye to Asm.js
o7
css_apologist··on Clojure: Transducers
i see

so it's more than all tranducable types implement a common interface?

or the tranduceable operators depend on a small subset of generic functions?

css_apologist··on Clojure: Transducers
js iterators work over lazy streams
css_apologist··on Clojure: Transducers
Is there a gain of clojure transducers to js style iterators? - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

both solve the copying problem, and not relying on concrete types

css_apologist··on Bombadil: Property-based testing for web UIs
very cool! does this work? can you describe the kinds of real bugs you've caught with this?
css_apologist··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
I got a few ideas which will probably never get done at this point

1 - actual css static analysis -- consume html + css, and provide tooling to preview what properties are inherited given the context you're in -- what you're overwriting, what display mode you're in. If there's inconsistent display modes depending on where in the html you are.

2 - a reactive html scripting language which using html as the source of truth, and synchronizes html elements through their relationships to each other

i only have prototypes, and unfortunately given the climate i feel i am the only person who wants these tools.. but every few weeks i get to sit down and get some progress and that's nice

css_apologist··on MacBook Air with M5
why?
css_apologist··on New iPad Air, powered by M4
i've been meaning to checkout pure data, this is cool thanks for sharing
css_apologist··on New iPad Air, powered by M4
looks like never
css_apologist··on New iPad Air, powered by M4
> no support for VSTs

yup, that kills it for me

css_apologist··on New iPad Air, powered by M4
This is an incredible piece of hardware, I just don't know what to do with it

how is music production on it these days?

css_apologist··on Leaving Google has actively improved my life
I felt this way until about a year or 2 ago, google has gotten so bad DDG is not worse for my uses

I don't dig in reddit frequently so that specific issue is not one for me

css_apologist··on Browse Code by Meaning
This seems like a really great use of LLMs

Especially with local models, I would use this!

css_apologist··on Use protocols, not services
cost, and we can create policy (shocker)

also what specifically are you worried about these 100 billion chatgpts doing?

css_apologist··on Parse, Don't Validate (2019)
This is an idea that is not ON or OFF

You can get ever so gradually stricter with your types which means that the operations you perform on on a narrow type is even more solid

It is also 100% possible to do in dynamic languages, it's a cultural thing

css_apologist··on Testing Ads in ChatGPT
Will this make OpenAI profitable?

What's the expected revenue from this?

css_apologist··on Nobody knows how the whole system works
Yes, but the person who understands a lot of the system is invaluable
css_apologist··on OpenClaw is changing my life
Yea, I enjoy being the engineer
css_apologist··on Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair
give me an example of EPA regulation that needs to be eliminated
css_apologist··on JSON-render: LLM-based JSON-to-UI tool
those describe server APIs

how would it relate to ui?

css_apologist··on Show HN: Rails UI
i wish :(
css_apologist··on Show HN: Rails UI
ugh this looks dated even by 2016 standards

when will developers learn UI actually matters

bootstrap was a mistake, and lowered the bar for everyone

css_apologist··on The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button
yea blew my mind shadcn is a radix wrapper
css_apologist··on Vibecoding #2
this isn't technically vibe coding right? this is just like using llms here and there for details you don't care to learn more about
css_apologist··on Show HN: wxpath – Declarative web crawling in XPath
sick, ty
css_apologist··on Show HN: wxpath – Declarative web crawling in XPath
xpath is so fucking cool

i can understand why it failed for general use, but shit like this revives my excitement

q: i'm not an expert, this looks like it extends xpath syntax? haven't seen stuff like the /map is this referring to the html map element? or a fp-style map?

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